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A froggie get-well card

Isn’t it great when you find just the right image for the card you’re making?

My cousin, Pierre, is in the hospital and I wanted to make him a cheery get-well card. I took my inspiration from this comical froggie king statue that he posted to Facebook. A quick look in my digis library and up popped a frog wearing a crown. Yay!

So, here’s how I created my little froggie card…

traced and detached the frog digi, using my Silhouette Cameo

traced and cut out a lily pad, a free image that I found using Google Search

created the square background using a blue polka dot background from my Silhouette library

coloured the frog with my Copic markers…now, here comes the fun part…

after colouring the frog, I used a Copic colourless blender to create lighter spots on the frog, then…

I turned the frog over, wrong side up and, using a foam mat and an embossing tool (see photo below) I made depressions all over my little froggie king; when I turned it right side up, those little depressions appeared as bumps…the photo below shows the embossing tools and the black sponge mat.

Embossing tools and a sponge mat are very inexpensive and are must-haves in every paper-crafting studio.

After gluing the lily pad to the front of my card, I then added a “Wobble Spring” to the back of the frog and attached it to the lily pad. A little flick of the finger and the frog wiggles and wobbles.

I always finish the inside and back of my cards to match the front. A funny quote on the inside left panel should bring a smile to my cousin’s face.

No Globug Ideas card is finished until it has my logo on the back.

So, that’s it for today. I hope my froggie card has inspired you to make a card for someone special in your life.